Need opinions about swap

[blackangst1]

my setup now is: SCSI-main OS, WD Caviar for everything else with a 5 gig partition for swap.

Im getting a raptor this week, and wondering: swap on same drive? Leave swap where it is? Or make a partition on raptor for swap?

Whatchu all think?

 

[Jeff7181]

I'm pretty sure having a swap file for each physical disk is the best way to go. I wouldn't make a special partition for it either... if you're worried about fragmentation, just make it a fixed size.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
I'm pretty sure having a swap file for each physical disk is the best way to go. I wouldn't make a special partition for it either... if you're worried about fragmentation, just make it a fixed size.

Fragmentation is pretty much irrelevant in swapfiles anyway, as they're usually not accessed in big sequential pieces.

Having it on a separate drive from the OS/programs may improve performance (and using a faster drive may help) -- but if you're hitting the swap file at all frequently, your performance will suck. In this case the real solution is to get more RAM.